No, but if we are to call out specific groups or individuals we should be also be linking this to the gross incompetence of a. The government department in charge b. The minister in charge c. The political party in charge. These three are the cause of the problem. The group or individual is only the symptom of bad politicians and their policies. We can then openly speck out against political opponents regardless of the political censorship laws of the future.
Let me illustrate by example.
Imagine a new NGO, lets call it "WurAllRacist" has been created and granted another shedload of taxpayer money to "smash racism".
WurAllRacist employees vow to target the media with numerous stories and reports to promote anti-racism and decide that in the absence of actual racism of note, it would help to make some up and/or grossly exaggerate the little there is.
Also, to stay in the news, they jump in on everything asylum related, direct provision, handouts etc and darkly suggest that racism is the only lens driving policy.
Next, our NGO employees target politicians. All politicians are to be on song so the money doesn't dry up and also to provide them with some virtue signalling
points, popular with certain electoral groupings. Who wants to be known as a racist politician?
All of a sudden, a new law is proposed to outlaw hate speech and a forum is to be assembled looking for members and submissions.
Who do you imagine submitted reason after reason to the media and politicians, why we need shiny new hate speech laws?
Who do you imagine proposed the forum?
Who do you imagine is going to drown it with submissions and look for representation?
Who do you imagine is going to claim credit for it when legislation is passed?
Who do you imagine is going to have to ferret for more concessions to stay relevant?
By the time you are venting to the politician - the train has left the station.
Unless you can match NGO time and resources to curb their impact, you won't curb their impact. And we are not talking about one NGO,
there's thousands of them.
#DefundNGOs